{"id":840026,"date":"2024-08-02T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T03:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=840026"},"modified":"2024-08-02T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:13:21","slug":"chinas-plan-to-introduce-digital-id-system-stokes-fears-of-govt-overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/02\/chinas-plan-to-introduce-digital-id-system-stokes-fears-of-govt-overreach\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s plan to introduce digital ID system stokes fears of govt overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s plan to introduce a nationwide digital identification system has been met with criticism of government overreach in a country that already closely monitors and censors speech. <\/p>\n<p>Some legal experts and users in the world\u2019s largest internet market have openly doubted the efforts\u2019 stated goal of protecting privacy after authorities published the proposal last week. China\u2019s internet regulator and police said users could opt in to such digital IDs, which would let them verify their identity online without giving up unnecessary personal details to internet service providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s plan to introduce a nationwide digital identification system has been met with criticism of government overreach in a country that already closely monitors and censors speech. Some legal experts and users in the world\u2019s largest internet market have openly doubted the efforts\u2019 stated goal of protecting privacy after authorities published the proposal last week. China\u2019s internet regulator and police said users could opt in to such digital IDs, which would let them verify their identity online without giving up unnecessary personal details to internet service providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}